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Haitian Senate Sacks Prime Minister

Posted Apr 13, 08 7:00 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Amid skyrocketing food prices and deadly riots in Haiti, the country's senate has voted to oust Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis. President Rene Preval, who appointed his ally Alexis in 2006 to lead the country's coalition government, must now choose a new cabinet. The vote came in spite of a recently announced 16% drop in the price of rice, BBC reports.

The price cut is to be underwritten by the private sector and international donors—a plan Preval's opposition calls "too little, too late." Protests over the last 10 days have left five dead, including a UN peacekeeper. "The majority of the people don't believe any more in the capacity of your government to take courageous measures," the senate told Preval.

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